
THE EVENING TRAIN 



TO PALM TREE LAND 



AND OTHER POEMS 



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BY 



WILLIAM GARY SANGER, Jr. 



THE EVENING TRAIN 



TO PALM TREE LAND 



AND OTHER POEMS 



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BY 
WILLIAM GARY SANGER, Jr. 



Author of Verse 

TIDES OF COMMERCE 
THE CITY OF TOIL AND DREAMS 
WITH THE ARMIES OF FRANCE 
IN THE LAND OF THE HARVEST 
SPRINGTIME AND THE HARBOR 



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THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED 

TO MY SISTER 

MARY ETHEL SANGER 



THE EVENING TRAIN 
To PALM TREE LAND 

AND OTHER POEMS 





THE EVENING TRAIN TO PALM TREE 

LAND 

A winter day — and the drifting snows 

And frozen fields — where the north wind blows, 

Gray and chill the sombre sky 

As the icy storm goes moaning by. 

But now the evening lights appear 
And my heart is glad — for the hour draws near 
When I take the train for the moonlit sand 
And the warm sea fragrance of Palm Tree Land. 

And there beside the dreaming sea 
My Creole girl is waiting me 
With her ukulele or her guitar 
Under the palms and the evening star. 

November 17, 1920. 



GRAY DAWN ON THE SEAS 

Gray and sullen across the seas 

The sombre dawn, autumnal drear, 

Comes — with a cold, mist-laden breeze, 
And the lowering fog banks near. 

The ship swings up and rolls and lifts 
As the heavy shouldering waves go by, 

And over the billows a lone gull drifts 
As the gray light spreads in the sky. 

October, 1920. 



THE GIRDERS AND THE STARS 

(Moonlight view of the steel framework of an office 
building under construction) 

Moonlight — and the girders, 
The great steel beams and bars 

That tower to the heavens. 
Reared against the stars. 

The quiet city drowses 

In the warm midsummer night, 

With the silver of the moonbeams 
On wall and towered height. 

And framed between the girders 

The mystic moon serene 
Looks down upon the magic 

And the beauty of the scene. 

July, 1920. 



WHEN THE SNOWS ARE MELTING 

Mist on the hills 

And the first warm fragrance of spring, 

For the snov^rs are melting 

And youth is waking 

And life begins again. 

March, 1921. 



THE MAGIC OF THE NIGHT 

The sunset colors fade away 

Far in the west, 
How gladly at the close of day 

The city turns to rest. 

Forgotten now the busy cares 

Of daylight hours. 
For now the balmy moonlight airs 

Enwrap the walls and towers. 

With mystery and starry light 

From far above. 
While in the quiet, drowsy night 

The city dreams of love. 



October 3, 1920. 



THE UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD 

The time is drawing near 
When all the Nations of the earth 
In brotherhood and love and peace 
Shall be united. 

How gloriously then 

The flags of Peace and Liberty 

Will float against the dreaming skies of blue, 

And oh, how youthful and how happy and how 

free 
The hearts of people ever5rwhere 
When all the lands and Nations near and far 
Shall be the steadfast members of a League: 
The United States of the World. 
What glorious vistas then of hope and life 
For all humanity shall come in those glad years 
Of lasting and eternal love and peace. 

September 28, 1920. 



BEAUTY 

Throughout the passing ages, year by year 
Beauty remains triumphant, youthful, free, 
Endowed with all the charms that most endear: 
Alluring love, and grace, vivacity 
And tenderness that dreams beneath the stars. 
How often in the course of human life 
Tumult and war and pain and anguish mars 
Our tranquilness and peace with care and strife, 
Yet through it all beauty and love still glow 
With youth and freshness, the undying fire 
Of hope eternal, by whose light we know 
The magic land of dreams and of desire. 
Then live, victorious beauty, tender, true, 
Our fervent praise and love we bring to you. 

February, I 92 I. 



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